Dewcal

A Happy Christmas to all and may the world know peace again.

<%MainImg1.Exif.Date%> I am using the syntax here to add a date to all slides in a show. This gives me YEAR-MM-DD. Is there any way I can have the date as DD-MM-YEAR as per my Windows PC in the UK? I have looked in options / preferences but do not seem to be able to find any related options. Thanks for any help in pointing out what I may have missed. Using v 11.0.9.

Having just discovered "type templates" I was wondering how easy it would be to be able to "customise" these? For example, I want to show the year only not the full date. At the moment the "workaround" has been to mask out the day and month not required. I can also see where having the GPS or lens / camera data automatically added could be useful. Any help here would be appreciated.

Dave, have managed to look at style you sent and appreciate how you have "covered" the unwanted part of the date - have never used masking in PTE before so have learnt something - thank you again.

Dave, Once again, many thanks for your help - it will now be tomorrow when I get to apply your latest style which is now safely downloaded.

Dave, Many thanks for your response - appreciated. I have downloaded your style and bookmarked the references to allow me to try it out this evening. Thanks again.

Thanks Jill, The use of a "manufactured" image as a watermark will work for the logo(s) on this project. If I am thinking correctly it will not allow me to show a variable "year". To automate a variable year the images was taken, am I correct in saying I need a field in a template for the exif date? The "built in" field seems to give me the full date - 23rd May 2009 - is there a way to just have the year appear? Thanks agin.

Thanks Dave, Am trying to replicate the above screen shot with a fixed logo in the corner and the year the image was taken - as the images were taken over several years, the latter will change throughout the show.

I am trying to produce a show where each slide should have a static line of text and two logos appearing on top of each image. In ProShow I could achieve this using a "master" slide. Can someone kindly advise me as to how I can achieve this in PTE Studio? I am still trying to understand the difference in terminology and how it all works! The show will be 1920 x 1080 and I want each image to be the full size of the screen with the logos / text on top of the image. Help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated!

Hi Davegee, There is nothing in my junk mail...at least not from PTE.... still no notifications....

I have just changed my email address to see if that will "kick start" notifications for me!

No notification of this reply by late afternoon Friday in the UK....

OK - will do.

Igor, have sent you pm with link to some files for download.

Igor, denisb, Yes, the format has many options but I suspect that denisb is correct is his portrayal of "photo" tiff format.

Barry, Thanks for reply - have no problem with being able to do batch conversion - for some reason I do not like jpg, so would most likely go with png. Igor, Will watch this space with interest. Thanks again.

Hi Lin, Thanks for reply and information. I have a large number of tiffs built over over the years so I would have to convert all of them.... Dave

I understand that PTE does not currently allow the use of the tiff file format. May I enquire if there are any plans to do so in the future? Many thanks.

Igor, I am pleased to say that I have managed to get a mp4 version to run on my Android. Leaving the laptop overnight and starting fresh with hardware acceleration off (medium quality) seemed to work ok. Thanks.

DG, I appreciate sentiment of staying logged in - not only do I exit the browser every time I am finished with it, I even switch off the PC if away for an hour or more.... Igor, happy to wait for your work to complete.

Igor, I have managed to make a mp4 from "HD & 4K" as 1920x1080, medium quality, 30fps without using hardware acceleration and this resulted in a massive file size of 1.9Gb and this plays back both on PC and Android (VLC). The zip file is close to 1Gb which will take me a long time to upload on a 1Mbs upload! Will try a shorter version...

Thanks DG!!! I have had to log in to see your comment..... other emails coming through to my address okay.... Still confused! Dave

Igor, Will check as suggested later today. Selected the mobile option as hoped for smaller file size....

I am trying to publish a 470 image file which is using a 3 sec AB fade transition without any motion / movement etc. Each image has been sized at 1920x1080 and saved as high quality jpeg prior to insertion into the show. When trying to publish 1280x720, medium quality, 30fps (Video for mobile devices) the resulting files cannot be played on Android 9 (Cosmo communicator) using VLC player. I have rendered file with and without hardware acceleration to no avail - the screen remains black. I have also rendered a 1920x1080 version and this will not play back on my PC with the attached image. Using v10.0.0 build 4. In both cases earlier versions (with only 200 or so images) played okay. Is there a file limit in PTE / mp4? Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

Igor, Thanks for getting back to me - can advise no emails still received. I await the server update.